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Maybe @Redactor0 wouldn't be bored if they didn't cover the same fricking stories every day. It's been the Trump trials (which are pointless and won't even affect the election) and Gaza for the last 9 months. @Redactor0 think @Redactor0 might have seen the war in Sudan mentioned about 3 times without specifically searching for it, and that's been going on for years.

@Redactor0 stand with Israel even though @Redactor0 don't think they've ever had diplomatic relations with Sudan.

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What's going on at The Washington Post is some good drama, but of exactly the kind that makes people not trust the people telling them the news. They're hardly the only ones.

I feel like the vast majority of 'trusted news sources' managed to unequivocally expose how much they're trying to control what you know, but also say and believe, over the course of the last decade, with big bumps for Trump, Covid and BLM. Doesn't help that you can see in real time on Twitter the same journ*lists acting like they're the arbiters of the cool table in a high school film.

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BLM was invented by the media, school shootings only happen because of the media, even Trump got elected because the media covered him so much. @Redactor0 is really fricking tired of these people having so much power but pretending they're just observing, not controlling what's happening.

@Redactor0 stand with Israel because at least they've still got Ha'aretz.

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Just 7% of Americans have "a great deal" of trust and confidence in the media, and 27% have "a fair amount." Meanwhile, 28% of U.S. adults say they do not have very much confidence and 38% have none at all in newspapers, TV and radio. Notably, this is the first time that the percentage of Americans with no trust at all in the media is higher than the percentage with a great deal or a fair amount combined.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/403166/americans-trust-media-remains-near-record-low.aspx

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Sometimes @Redactor0 wonder if it's just @Redactor0 growing up, but no, @Redactor0 is pretty sure they really do suck way more than they did 20-30 years ago.

@Redactor0 stand with Israel.

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Maybe more explicitly partisan but their coverage of 9/11, Iraq and climate change to name a few off the top of my head would lead me to say no they've always been untrustworthy.

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Sudan is a special case because people need to not know who is selling them arms and military support and that's almost guaranteed to come up if it gets news coverage.

Even Wikipedia notices and they deliberately avoid noticing things in such articles.

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